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  • Memory and Genocide

    On What Remains and the Possibility of Representation

    Series series Memory Studies: Global Constellations
    This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films, poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image, law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation which ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Azerbaijan at the Crossroads of Eurasia

    The Tumultuous Fate of a Nation Caught Up Between the Rivalries of the World’s Major Powers

    Modern Azerbaijan came into being in 1991 following a national struggle for the re-establishment of its independence, initiated long before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It is situated in a unique geographic location, at the crossroads of Eurasia and on the famous Silk Road that links Europe and Asia. It has been the stage of particularly rich historical events, testament to its ancient State ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Man and His Surroundings

    Translated by Alexander Rojavin ...
    Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what “Lenin” thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Goatibex Constellation

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen Burlingame ...
    From the Russian author of the banned book Sandro of Chegem, this satire of life in the twentieth century USSR takes on agricultural production and genetics.The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal—a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur. What follows ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being Human

    Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq

    by Fazil Moradi ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Neurodiversity in Silence

    Understanding Dual Diagnosis in Autism and Hearing Impairment

    In a world built for words, Neurodiversity in Silence reveals the powerful, often invisible experiences of children and adults living with both Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and hearing impairment. Through the lens of neuroscience, education, and human empathy, Dr. Hina Hadayat Ali and Dr. Hina Fazil invite us to see beyond diagnosis, and into a deeper understanding of minds that communicate ... Read more

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  • Desi Diet and Health Tips

    South Asian Healthy Cooking

    As in many cultures, food plays an important role in the lives of the Desi people. Food is a great source of comfort, and it brings back many memories from the homeland. But this same food may be at the root of health problems from which many South Asian people suffer. In Desi Diet and Health Tips, authors Ali Noor and Fazil Zafar offer a simple and easy-to-use guide to help the Desi population ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow

    Series series Environment and Society
    Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship, and the management of energy-intensive facilities. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Gender Violence in Peace and War

    States of Complicity

    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book argues, violence against women should be understood as a systemic problem—one for which the state ... Read more

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    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Painted Bird

    The classic novel of a boy's struggle for survival in WWII Poland, from the National Book Award–winning author of Steps and Being There."In 1939, a six-year-old boy is sent by his anti-Nazi parents to a remote village in Poland where they believe he will be safe. Things happen, however, and the boy is left to roam the Polish countryside. . . . To the blond, blue-eyed peasants in this part of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of the Muslim World

    From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

    A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD